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Tommy Norment is seeking re-election as the state Senator from the 3rd district, which stretches from the Middle Peninsula to the South of the James counties of Isle of Wight and Surry. Norment, R-James City County, who is the Senate Majority Leader, was first elected to the state Senate in 1991, and has for the past five years as been one of the handful of legislators who negotiate budget compromises. He also serves as co-chairman of the Courts of Justice Committee, which is the panel that hears proposals to change criminal and civil law and that interviews judicial candidates. "I put my experience as a lawmaker and my seniority in the Senate to work for the people...

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Tommy Norment is seeking re-election as the state Senator from the 3rd district, which stretches from the Middle Peninsula to the South of the James counties of Isle of Wight and Surry.
Norment, R-James City County, who is the Senate Majority...

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There's a fee increase nestled into the General Assembly's soon-to-be-final budget language, increasing the amount commissioners of accounts can charge to settle timeshare foreclosures.
The fee would max out at $150, paid out of the...

Let it never be said, when state senators rise to the heights of co-chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, that they bear grudges.
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In politics, fundraising never stops – and even when there are no statewide General Assembly elections set, as in 2014, the money kept flowing in, campaign finance reports for the second half of the year show.
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State Sen. Tommy Norment said Gov. Terry McAuliffe's State of the Commonwealth speech shows why the governor "deserves marketer of the year for 2015."
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State Sen. Walter Stosch, one of a few Republicans who backed a quasi-privatized version of Medicaid expansion last year, said Tuesday that he won't seek re-election.
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